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ChileG said:
My next door neighbor is in the church band.
Most of the band is compromised of Charlotte band The Alternative Champs.
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Yep. And there was a poster on the old ZZL on IC who was the original bassist of the Champs (I don’t think he’s made his way over here).

They were originally supposed to play my wedding, but my wife (who loves their music) had second thoughts after Mike (not sure if he’s the member who’s also your neighbor) had already agreed to it. So they didn’t play.

Danny McBride’s shows have involved other Charlotte musicians as well. He co-created and co-created Eastbound & Down with Charlotte native Ben Best, who was in the Charlotte band Pyramid and also played Clegg in the show. And Charlotte’s Benji Hughes performed the song “Kenny,” which was featured in Eastbound & Down.
 
Icky Mettle said:
Yep. And there was a poster on the old ZZL on IC who was the original bassist of the Champs (I don’t think he’s made his way over here).

They were originally supposed to play my wedding, but my wife (who loves their music) had second thoughts after Mike (not sure if he’s the member who’s also your neighbor) had already agreed to it. So they didn’t play.

Danny McBride’s shows have involved other Charlotte musicians as well. He co-created and co-created Eastbound & Down with Charlotte native Ben Best, who was in the Charlotte band Pyramid and also played Clegg in the show. And Charlotte’s Benji Hughes performed the song “Kenny,” which was featured in Eastbound & Down.
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My neighbor isn’t in the Champs, but he knows all of them and they needed a percussionist for the show, so they asked him to join.
My neighbor has played in bands with all of those guys (save the drummer) in the past.
 
sringwal said:
Doc Jensen’s E.W. recaps of Lost start about half way through season 1, and get really good by the beginning of season 2. They were difficult to find for awhile, but someone was able to collect and wayback them. They are well worth a read before, or after, each episode. I highly recommend them. Easily the best recaps of any show that I have seen, particularly if you are drawn to the philosophy side of the show.i

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Delayed post here. But man - I had forgot about Doc Jensen…Lost kinda lost me toward the end a bit. But such great television for so long.

Occasionally watched the episodes at a bar in NYC… fun times
 
altmin said:
I just watched the first season of The Horne Section TV Show it's an interesting take on his Taskmaster Personna. Imaginative fictional spinoff from a reality game show.
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Watched the 1st episode last night. Interesting concept, but can’t say I loved it. Will give it another episode, though
 
This week's episode of The Studio is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while

The way a list actors were totally on board to be silly as hell was awesome. Brian Cranston had me rolling
 
sringwal said:
Damnit. What you just wrote about Kirby and Moore is a really good counter argument. Let me mull that for a bit.

If you are interested in a contemporary comic that runs with the points you are making, then I highly recommend Zdarsky's comic Public Domain. It's one of the best metanarrative comics that takes on the business of making comics.

Speaking of Public Domain characters, I'm reading Jim Krueger and Alex Ross' Project Superpowers largely based on my love of Earth X, which I believe is the most important, and most overlooked, Marvel comic miniseries.

It's a really good story, but it is, in part, difficult to get into because I don't know the characters the way I do Marvel and DC characters, and I haven't watched how they have evolved over the decades. I'll update my thoughts when I finish it, as I have mixed feelings about IPs, and most notably Disney - we all can name at least one Disney story (not just one story from a property currently owned by Disney) that played a formative role in shaping who we are.

We are often tasked with separating the art from the artist. Is the same not also true from the art and the IP? I don't know. But I do know that I wouldn't be the person that I am today - and I probably wouldn't have taken on a career that I have shaped around the importance of storytelling - without consuming Disney stories.

Andor works as a non-Star Wars property, but placing the story inside a modern myth enriches all other Star Wars projects. And to go back to your point about The Wire, it may not exist within a superhero universe, but it is still a part of the Time Warner conglomerate. Does it's placement outside of that universe make the endeavor more noble? I don't know.
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FWIW, this argument is broadly consistent with mine.
 
BluHevn said:
I'm on season 2 of Better Call Saul. When does it get good?
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I may catch grief for this, but I was disappointed, ultimately, with that whole series. I thought the mentally ill brother thing (who is at the same time supposed to be a great lawyer) was a ball and chain the show dragged around. I thought it was too cute in writing and was bugged by how much older (!) all characters from BB looked. No question there is some fun and some good writing, but there is also a lot filler stuff of people just say, walking around, and it's way too cute. I watched it all, which looking back, was I think pretty charitable. Loved the Carol Burnett bit.

If someone wants to say some stuff about why I should watch Andor -- if I personally have had it with all the Star Wars product stuff, I would read it.

Your Friends and Neighbors has improved, and I really like it even more now.
 
an0maly said:
I may catch grief for this, but I was disappointed, ultimately, with that whole series. I thought the mentally ill brother thing (who is at the same time supposed to be a great lawyer) was a ball and chain the show dragged around. I thought it was too cute in writing and was bugged by how much older (!) all characters from BB looked. No question there is some fun and some good writing, but there is also a lot filler stuff of people just say, walking around, and it's way too cute. I watched it all, which looking back, was I think pretty charitable. Loved the Carol Burnett bit.

If someone wants to say some stuff about why I should watch Andor -- if I personally have had it with all the Star Wars product stuff, I would read it.

Your Friends and Neighbors has improved, and I really like it even more now.
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Stay with it. I loved the series. Agree that the Saul's brother lawyer storyline was the weak link.
 
"The West," an 8 hour series debuting on the History Channel this weekend looks promising. It's produced by Kevin Costner and Doris Kearns Goodwin.
 
Like all series I get interested in, I got in late watching Severance, but I am really enjoying it. The pacing is a little slow, but it is unfolding like a fever dream. I really like the visual style and it has a little bit of a modernized David Lynch feel to me.
 
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